Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Some doctors don’t think the President’s proposal is all that swell of an idea, but they weren’t invited to the happy-talk. So with all that free time they had from not being invited to things, they wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal instead.
Today, Medicare already reimburses doctors less than what many of their treatments cost to provide. Now the government is saying that additional Medicare cuts are coming—thus forcing doctors to try and make up the difference in volume, by seeing more patients. If you ask patients about this, they understand that more volume means less time with the doctor. That’s something that all patients and doctors should oppose. In time, it will be difficult to find a physician.
If the goal of reform is to provide the best possible patient care, let’s take the government-controlled “public option”—and any legislative trick that could lead to a public option—off the table. It will result in long waiting lines to see a doctor, substandard care, and an end to medical discovery.
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Btw, Morgan, here in California I’ve discovered that Medicare pays doctors less in Sonoma than in Marin, the county next door. I’m sure it’s only coincidental that the local Congress, ah, “person” is Lynn Woolsey, and that the Congressional Record characterizes her Congressional District as “The left-most county in the country.”
- rob | 10/07/2009 @ 05:50Language, language, language.
It is not a “public” option, it is a government “option”. It is not a government option, it is a Trojan Horse.
Hayek–
Many words embodied in our language are of such a character that one is led to conclusions not implied by any sober thought about the subject in question., Such words appeal to men to redesign what they never could have designed at all, or have acquired the power to empty the nouns they qualify of their meaning. As a weasel is alleged to be able to empty an egg without leaving a visible sign, so can these words deprive of content any term to which they are attached.
As a supreme if unintended compliment, the enemies of the system of private enterprise have thought it wise to appropriate its label–Joseph Shumpteter
- xlibrl | 10/07/2009 @ 15:06